Solid Steel in association with Serato (12th October) Mr Armtone returns with his latest AV mix titled 'Time Machine' which expertly travels through a quality selection of visuals and audio. As usual with Solid Steel video mixes, it's not just a collection of music videos, it's also about selecting exciting visuals to match the audio and to edit into a well crafted video mixtape. We open with hip hop and beats from The Chemical Brothers, Haiku D'Etat, Jay Z and Tipper, moving on to our own Coldcut and The Herbaliser and up into TC and Cyantific. Then it's a brief old skool trip with Sir Mix-A-Lot and back again with Dizzie Rascal, Benga, Silkie and an appearance from Wiley. We close with Hexstatic, the excellent Breakage remix for Roots Manuva and a sublime ending with 'Time Machine' by Chocolate Milk. 

This week Strictly digs into his extensive DJ Shadow collection (we're [bad word] here) and brings us the 2 mixes that he created for the recent XFM special on the man. The first 10 minutes showcase the ambient soundscape side of Shadow's music, increasingly rarer in recent years with not a beat in sight. The last 20 minutes are all guns-blazing, beat-rocking, classic-plundering goodness, as you would expect. 
The final half hour sees a little known mix veteran make his Solid Steel debut, New Yorker Ill Chemist aka Alan Friedman, sometime Steinski associate and man behind the mysterious Break Beatles of old. His 'Too Much Information' half hour will jerk you out of your seat and make musical connections you never knew existed but were right under your nose all the time. What a show!

Playlist: [bad word] /solidsteel.ninjatune.net/index.php?id=771